Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has assured the mother of missing Nakuru fisherman Brian Odhiambo that justice will be done.
Speaking to Elizabeth Auma in Nakuru on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in Nakuru County, Murkomen promised to provide closure on the matter which has dragged on for months since the mysterious disappearance of the fisherman at Lake Nakuru.
“Nikirudi Nairobi, nitaketi na wale amabao walikuwa wanafanya investigation waniambie imefika wapi. Lakini nia yangu ni kuhakikisha ya kuwa mwishowe umepata haki. Nitachukuwa hii personally na chenye naweza kusema tu ni pole kwako na kwa kijana wako,” Murkomen assured.
(When I get back to Nairobi, I will link up with those handling the investigation of Brian Odhiambo to find out where they have reached. But my intention is that you get justice in the end.)
Interrupts speech
This came after Auma breached protocol during the CS’s speech at Shabab in Nakuru West during the launch of the national mobile registration programme.
Murkomen asked his security detail to let the distraught woman reach him amid cheers from the crowd. The CS later invited Auma to the County administration offices where she narrated her anguish in getting closure on the matter of her missing son.
Auma implored the CS to at least help the family locate the body of her missing son so that they could get closure.
“All the officers that were involved will be taken to court and lose their jobs. There are other Kenyans who disappeared like Brian. It was Brian’s mother who just spoke to me. I want to tell you that I am in solidarity with you, and we will do everything possible to hold those KWS officers who arrested your son to account until they tell us where Brian is,” Murkomen said.
“We have seen that a few KWS officers are involved in the illegal business of controlling fish sales at Lake Nakuru. When they see other citizens coming to fish in the lake, they beat them because they are not part of their network,” he added.
Disappeared without a trace
Odhiambo was reportedly last seen in the company of KWS officers at the Lake Nakuru National Park on January 18, 2025, when he disappeared.
A week later, a court in Nakuru ordered the officer in charge of Lake Nakuru National Park to produce the body of the missing fisherman dead or alive.
On Tuesday, March 18, 2025, Odhiambo’s family, lawyers and activists were allowed into the park where they suspected that the missing fisherman had been buried but all the sites dug had no bodies.
“All the graves we saw seem to have been dug and bodies exhumed from them but I believe the truth will soon come out,” Auma told journalists.
